NMPU
The National
Missing Persons Unit (NMPU)
http://www.missingpersons.info.au/
National Missing
Persons Unit Australia: Missing
Cases
A State by
State Entry & Australians Missing Overseas, which is always woefully
out of date.
At last check,
nothing had been updated on the site for three months. I know of three
people on that list who have been found. One was found deceased, but their
list had not been updated.
Also from their
website:
"The
National Missing Persons Unit (NMPU) commenced in 1995 and is based at
the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence in Canberra."
The NMPU coordinates
and facilitates a national, integrated approach to missing persons.
It seeks to
involve the Australian community in working to reduce the number of
missing people and to minimise the consequences when people go missing."
(my
emphasis)
Information
Source: July, 1999 FACT
SHEET 2 About the National Missing Persons Unit
http://www.missingpersons.info.au/media_releases/1999/july/fact2.htm
Checked: 1st
Feb, 2002.
Despite these
claims, THE NMPU and Crimestoppers do not WANT anybody else trying to find
missing people, in Australia. It doesn't want to involve anyone else, except
their own close knit circle and will abuse and harrass anyone that get
in thier way. That includes The Missing Persons Register, Crimenet
and other smaller services. I refused to be intimidated into closing my
site in September, and an attempt to close Crimenet down last year failed.
Both services are still going strong, with much PUBLIC SUPPORT.
The NMPU has
refused to accept any information from us in regard to missing persons,
and refused point blank to return ANY communications emailed to them over
a
four year period, likewise all calls to thier 1800 number when we were
told our call would be returned in three different states, and no time
did anybody bother to call us back.
Instead after
four years, I was rung and harrassed and abused, and screamed at by a fruitcake
identifying herself as Carol Kiernan who claimed she owned the Australian
Bureau of Criminal Intelligence in Canberra, then proceeded to tear shreds
off me over a percieved slight.
See Update
on ABCI for the rest of the story.
According to
the NMPU's own website's Media Release by John Ure
"I’m
the Director of the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence, where
the National Missing Persons Unit is based."
On that same
page, it describes Carol as "Manager of the National Missing Persons
Unit" Big difference between managing a unit and owning an Intelligence
Bureau!!
I'm thoughly
disgusted both with the phone call, the attitude and the unwarranted uneccessary
abuse.
What is
most shameful is the fact nobody never ever bothered to apologise, once
they realised that THEY were the ones in the wrong.- Webmaster
